Cristine Seidell

MA, LPC, CCH

Practice Owner & Clinical Director

Accepting New Clients!

Cristine specializes in the following:

  • Treatment-Resistant Clients
  • Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
  • Inner Child Work
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Attachment Disorders
  • Group Therapy
  • Couples Therapy
  • Family Therapy
  • Family Reunification Therapy
  • Hypnotherapy
  • Neurolinguistic Programming
  • Assessments and Appraisals
  • Parenting Support
  • Parent-Child Relationships
  • Business Coaching

Cristine entered into counseling and therapy after a 12-year career in education. Beginning in private practice, she proceeded to work closely with children and families facing behavioral and mood concerns. Utilizing her experience as an educator and of quick rapport-building with children, Cristine became well respected as an individual and group therapist in the East Cobb and North Fulton areas and as a founder of Rise Therapy Center.

Ever the lover of learning, Cristine continued to develop her skills and acquired additional certifications serving children, adolescents, and adults. Using her expertise of childhood and the developmental emotional stages, Cristine quickly became a well-respected specialist in treatment-resistant clients, couples, and families. Using a basis of Internal Family Systems, Inner Child Work, and Nervous System Regulation, she specializes in mood, behavioral, and emotional incongruences based upon false beliefs, nervous system dysregulation, and subconscious programming. Cristine treats clients in group, family, or individual session settings.

Through her work with treatment-resistant clients, Cristine focused on empirically-based modalities and became a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (CCH), a Guided Meditation Master, as well as a trained Ketamine-Assisted Therapist through Alchemy Therapy Trainings in Oakland, California. Cristine partners with local psychiatrists to offer the most effective and researched-based altered state therapies, which are quickly gaining a reputation in transforming the mental health world.

In addition to her formal professional career, Cristine authored the 3-6-9 Family Reunification Plan©, which works to apply specific goals to families of high conflict or families in current litigation. She is a respected expert witness in Cobb, Cherokee, Douglas, Fulton, Forsyth, and Dekalb counties, as well as the states of Colorado and California.

Cristine provides Continuing Education and Public Speaking Engagements on topics such as High-Conflict Systems, Neutral Parenting, Effective Communication, Mindfulness, Reunification Therapy, and Childhood Therapy.

Cristine is a host of And Still We Rise, a podcast that explores the process of healing ego wounds through thought-provoking discussions with special guests. She is also the author of 30 CBT Creative Interventions for Children and Teens.

Cristine loves spending time at the beach with her family and adorable Aussie-Shepherd, Loki.

A Few Words From Cristine:

Very few of us get to travel this beautiful journey unscathed. Through our experiences, relationships, and conditioning, we may have developed some belief systems that truly do not serve us and, unfortunately, some beliefs that actually harm us. Therapy is a sacred place to be vulnerable, honor the radiance that is you, and learn new ways of BEING. As an intuitive therapist, I am lit up seeing my clients become the Sages of their own lives and heal the wounds that have manifested in the forms of relationship, somatic, or behavioral issues.

“Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”

— Carl Jung

FAQs

HOW MUCH DOES A SESSION COST?

My fee for a 50-minute individual session is $200. My fee for a 50-minute couples session is $240.

Rise Therapy Center is an out-of-network provider with many insurance companies, which means that we do not bill insurance companies directly. Your counseling services may be eligible for reimbursement through out-of-network benefits, medical spending (FSAs), or health savings accounts (HSAs). Health insurance plans and benefits vary. If you are interested in using your health insurance, please call your insurance provider to inquire about reimbursement for out-of-network counseling services.

Our Practice Director will provide you with a document on request called a "superbill," which is like an invoice but contains the service codes, dates of treatment, and monies paid during therapy. You would submit this to your plan directly, and your plan would reimburse you directly.

HOW ARE MY RECORDS STORED?

We utilize a HIPAA-compliant, encrypted, electronic medical record called TherapyAppointment that holds all of my clients' mental health records safely in it. You will get a link to a client portal where you fill in demographic information and can access your paperwork and scheduling. You can aslo find the portal login on our website.

DO YOU HAVE A CANCELATION POLICY?

I have a 24-business-hour cancelation policy. You will be responsible for an entire session fee if the change is made in less than 24-business-hours' notice. Exceptions may be made for emergencies—such as sudden illness or accident—at my discretion. It should be noted that insurance does not reimburse for canceled sessions, and HSA and FSA cards can't be used in these cases.